Sunday, December 14, 2008

Free Online Storage which provide 1GB of free space. It has client programs for uploading, syncing between different computers, independent of the OS. Pretty neat and interact with the Client Desktop quite seamlessly.

"fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied", the solution is to use root to run"chmod o+rw /dev/fuse"

"sshfs: error while loading shared libraries: libfuse.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory." The solution is to run "ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfuse.so.2 /lib64/" for 64 bit or ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfuse.so.2 /lib/ for 32-bit

Monday, November 17, 2008

Leafpad is a simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor. Leafpad is simple to use, is easily compiled, requires few libraries, and starts up quickly.

It's a new way of managing files. Or rather not manage files. Currently it's a cross between a calendar and a file browser with labels. It's a free/open source GTK application written in C#.You can download an alpha version and try it out! As a side-effect, you'll likely learn something about your past computer use right away!

Monday, November 10, 2008

The goal of this project is to provide a fully functional Linux terminal server, capable of accepting connections from rdesktop and Microsoft's own terminal server / remote desktop clients. The Website of xrdp (http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/)

PackageKit is a system designed to make installing and updating software on your computer easier. The primary design goal is to unify all the software graphical tools used in different distributions, and use some of the latest technology like PolicyKit to make the process suck less.

Monday, October 27, 2008

lxdvdrip is a tool to make a copy from a Video DVD for private use. It automates the process of ripping, authoring, preview and burning a DVD. It requires dvdbackup

DVD::Rip a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy to use but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process.

dvdbackup is another command-line DVD ripping. However it is not able to handle the latest encrypted DVD

QuickRip is a quick and easy but basic DVD ripper based on MPlayer and transcode. It is intended for those who do not care to configure framerates, clipping or other rarely-used options. It features both GUI and CLI interfaces.